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Your barren urban sprawl: Tolkien's modern Mordor in the making. (lemmy.world)
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[–] scholar@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

China ended their one child policy because it had succeeded. Parents killing their daughters was a cultural issue particularly in rural farming communities who depended on their sons for labour. We can't uncritically assume that any given implementation of a childbirth disincentivisation policy will lead to infanticide.